May 29th, 2020
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Mac Vendor Lookup. This library provides an easy way to get vendor information from a MAC address. It contains a local copy of the IEEE's OUI prefix list. It has an asynchronous interface using Python 3's asyncio as well as a regular synchronous interface for old-school usage. Installation pip install mac-vendor-lookup Basic Usage. I have followed the mentioned steps to upgrade the installed Python version on my laptop, but when i run python -version the old version comes up. I want to use the latest version 3.8 to use it on IDLE. Upgrade/Update Python Package To The Latest Version. We will use the install command with the -upgrade option and also provide the package name. In this example, we will update/upgrade the package named Django to the latest version. We will also provide the -user option. Alternatively to the -upgrade we can use -U which is the short form.
I finally did it. I successfully installed Python version 3.7.7 viaHomebrew on my Maclaptop with OS Catalinainstalled.
For those of you that still might be trying to figure outhow todo this, I will walk you through.
The reason why I was eager to make sure that I had the latest versioninstalled was because I am working on publishing (open-source)teaching-relateddocumentation on Read The Docs, and I need to havePythoninstalled in order to be able to install the programsnecessary to publishthere.
The default2.7.17 version of Python was retired this pastJanuary 2020. I had tried back then to replace it with Python 3+,but was unsuccessful at the time. The following is what I did today:
First I updated Homebrew. Yes, I used Homebrew to (re)installPython. It’s really easy. It’s just a matter of putting the pieces of thepuzzle together correctly!
I ran the command
To updateHomebrew. Then I ran the command
To (re)install Python. Then I ran
To see which version of Python my Mac laptop was recognizing. Itstill recognized only Python 2.7.17. So I ran the followingcommand:
It told me the path to my newly installedPython 3.7.7. I had tochange the path to Python in order for my Mac to recognize thenewly installed version. This is what the command brew info python returned tome in Terminal:
So I had to add the following at the bottom of my .zshrc fileto update the path to my newly installed version of Python viaHomebrew:
Then I made sure to quitTerminal and go back in so that the pathwould actually be updated in a newTerminal windowinstance.
Then I checked what version of Python was recognized now with
And this is what was returned:
Success! It’s as easy as that.
And BTW, if you don’t know how to access your .zshrc file in Catalina,you simply execute the following command:
And your file will open in a new window. Then you can paste
At the bottom of the file.
I will be embedding this episode of Plugging in The Holes along with atranscript in the form of a post oninterglobalmedianetwork.com for yourhearing and reading pleasure. Bye for now!
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